Whole-Genome and RNA Sequencing Reveal Variation and Transcriptomic Coordination in the Developing Human Prefrontal Cortex
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UCSF UC San Francisco Previously Published Works Title Whole-Genome and RNA Sequencing Reveal Variation and Transcriptomic Coordination in the Developing Human Prefrontal Cortex. Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8j92s7z1 Journal Cell reports, 31(1) ISSN 2211-1247 Authors Werling, Donna M Pochareddy, Sirisha Choi, Jinmyung et al. Publication Date 2020-04-01 DOI 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.03.053 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California HHS Public Access Author manuscript Author ManuscriptAuthor Manuscript Author Cell Rep Manuscript Author . Author manuscript; Manuscript Author available in PMC 2020 June 15. Published in final edited form as: Cell Rep. 2020 April 07; 31(1): 107489. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2020.03.053. Whole-Genome and RNA Sequencing Reveal Variation and Transcriptomic Coordination in the Developing Human Prefrontal Cortex Donna M. Werling1,2,32, Sirisha Pochareddy3,32, Jinmyung Choi3,32, Joon-Yong An1,4,5,32, Brooke Sheppard1, Minshi Peng6, Zhen Li3,7, Claudia Dastmalchi1, Gabriel Santpere3,8, André M.M. Sousa3, Andrew T.N Tebbenkamp3, Navjot Kaur3, Forrest O. Gulden3, Michael S. Breen9,10,11,12, Lindsay Liang1, Michael C. Gilson1, Xuefang Zhao13,14,15, Shan Dong1, Lambertus Klei16, A. Ercument Cicek17,18, Joseph D. Buxbaum9,10,11,19, Homa Adle- Biassette20, Jean-Leon Thomas21,22, Kimberly A. Aldinger23,24, Diana R. O’Day25, Ian A. Glass25, Noah A. Zaitlen26, Michael E. Talkowski13,14,15, Kathryn Roeder6,18, Matthew W. State1,27, Bernie Devlin16, Stephan J. Sanders1,27,33,*, Nenad Sestan3,28,29,30,31,* 1Department of Psychiatry, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA 2Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA 3Department of Neuroscience and Kavli Institute for Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA 4Department of Integrated Biomedical and Life Science, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea 5School of Biosystem and Biomedical Science, College of Health Science, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea 6Department of Statistics and Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA 7Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093, USA This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). *Correspondence: [email protected] (S.J.S.), [email protected] (N.S.). AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS Conceptualization, K.R., M.W.S., B.D., S.J.S., and N.S.; Methodology, D.M.W., S.P., J.C., J.-Y.A., H.A.-B., J.-L.T., K.A.A., D.R.O., I.A.G., K.R., M.W.S., B.D., S.J.S., and N.S.; Software, D.M.W., J.-Y.A., C.D., L.L., M.C.G., and S.J.S.; Validation, D.M.W., S.P., J.C., J.-Y.A., C.D., S.D., B.D., S.J.S., and N.S.; Formal Analysis, D.M.W., S.P., J.C., J.-Y.A., B.S., M.P., G.S., M.S.B., L.K., A.E.C., B.D., and S.J.S.; Investigation, D.M.W., S.P., J.C., J.-Y.A., B.S., B.D., S.J.S., and N.S.; Resources, S.P., J.C., Z.L., C.D., A.M.M.S, A.T.N.T., N.K., F.O.G., L.L., M.C.G., X.Z., H.A.-B., J.-L.T., K.A.A., D.R.O., I.A.G., M.E.T., S.J.S., and N.S.; Data Curation, D.M.W., S.P., J.C., C.D., L.L., M.C.G., X.Z., S.D., and S.J.S.; Statistical analysis, D.M.W., J.C., J.-Y.A., B.S., M.P., M.S.B., B.D., and S.J.S.; Writing – Original Draft, D.M.W., S.P., J.C., J.-Y.A., B.S., B.D., S.J.S., and N.S.; Writing – Review & Editing, D.M.W., S.P., J.C., J.- Y.A., B.S., M.P., Z.L., C.D., G.S., A.M.M.S., A.T.N.T., N.K., F.O.G., M.S.B., L.L., M.C.G., X.Z., S.D., L.K., A.E.C., J.D.B., H.A.-B., J.-L.T., K.A.A., D.R.O., I.A.G., N.A.Z., M.E.T., K.R., M.W.S., B.D., S.J.S., and N.S.; Visualization, D.M.W., S.P., J.C., J.-Y.A., B.S., S.J.S., and N.S.; Supervision, J.D.B., N.A.Z., M.E.T., K.R., M.W.S., B.D., S.J.S., and N.S.; Project Administration, D.M.W., S.P., S.J.S., and N.S.; Funding Acquisition, K.R., M.W.S., B.D., S.J.S., and N.S. DECLARATION OF INTERESTS The authors declare no competing interests. SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION Supplemental Information can be found online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.03.053. Werling et al. Page 2 8Neurogenomics Group, Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics, Hospital del Mar Author ManuscriptAuthor Manuscript Author Manuscript Author Manuscript Author Medical Research Institute, Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08003 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 9Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA 10Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA 11Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA 12Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA 13Center for Genomic Medicine and Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA 14Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA 15Program in Medical and Population Genetics and Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA 16Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA 17Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara 06800, Turkey 18Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA 19Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA 20Department of Pathology, Lariboisière Hospital, APHP, Biobank BB-0033-00064, and Université de Paris, 75006 Paris, France 21Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511, USA 22UMRS1127, Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière, 75013 Paris, France 23Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA 24Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA 25Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA 26Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA 27Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA 28Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA 29Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA Cell Rep. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2020 June 15. Werling et al. Page 3 30Department of Comparative Medicine, Program in Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology Author ManuscriptAuthor Manuscript Author Manuscript Author Manuscript Author of Metabolism, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA 31Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration, and Repair and Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA 32These authors contributed equally to this work 33Lead Contact SUMMARY Gene expression levels vary across developmental stage, cell type, and region in the brain. Genomic variants also contribute to the variation in expression, and some neuropsychiatric disorder loci may exert their effects through this mechanism. To investigate these relationships, we present BrainVar, a unique resource of paired whole-genome and bulk tissue RNA sequencing from the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of 176 individuals across prenatal and postnatal development. Here we identify common variants that alter gene expression (expression quantitative trait loci [eQTLs]) constantly across development or predominantly during prenatal or postnatal stages. Both “constant” and “temporal-predominant” eQTLs are enriched for loci associated with neuropsychiatric traits and disorders and colocalize with specific variants. Expression levels of more than 12,000 genes rise or fall in a concerted late-fetal transition, with the transitional genes enriched for cell-type-specific genes and neuropsychiatric risk loci, underscoring the importance of cataloging developmental trajectories in understanding cortical physiology and pathology. In Brief Werling et al. analyze gene expression across the span of human cerebral cortical development and profile the trajectories of individual genes, coordinated groups of genes, and their relationships to disorders. Integration of genetic variation identifies quantitative trait loci that implicate specific genes in loci associated with neuropsychiatric traits and disorders. Graphical Abstract Cell Rep. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2020 June 15. Werling et al. Page 4 Author ManuscriptAuthor Manuscript Author Manuscript Author Manuscript Author INTRODUCTION The human nervous system develops slowly over several decades, starting during embryogenesis and extending postnatally through infancy, childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood (Keshavan et al., 2014; Shaw et al., 2010; Silbereis et al., 2016; Tau and Peterson, 2010). Over this time, myriads of functionally distinct cell types, circuits, and regions are formed (Hu et al., 2014; Lui et al., 2011; Silbereis et al., 2016). To produce distinct structures and circuits, neural cells are born in an immature state and undergo a variety of molecular and morphological changes as they differentiate, migrate, and establish circuits. Consequently, the characteristics of a given cell and brain region at a given time offer only a snapshot of organogenesis and brain function, necessitating consistent profiling across development.